Subject: bug#58318: 28.2; Emacs installed from package won't work with MinGW

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:44:29 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:02:03 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > How is this relevant only to Windows?
> 
> It's relevant to our binary Windows distribution.
> 
> GNU/Linux distributions will make gcc (and the rest) a prerequisite to
> installing the emacs-nativecomp package (or whatever they'll be calling
> it), so it's not an issue there.

I don't think I agree.  Problems with incompatible libgccjit can
happen on other systems as well, so the solution should not be limited
to Windows.